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"Soon After Midnight" is a love song/murder ballad hybrid. At less than three-and-a-half minutes, it is the shortest of the 10 songs on Tempest and the only example of the pre-rock pop ballad genre to be found on the album. The title is a reference to "fairy time" in William Shakespeare's play A Midsummer Night's Dream. [1]
AFTER MIDNIGHT: The first word of each theme answer can be placed AFTER the word MIDNIGHT to form a new phrase: MIDNIGHT MASS, MIDNIGHT SNACK, and MIDNIGHT OIL.
Time's Paces is a poem about the apparent speeding up of time as one gets older. It was written by Henry Twells (1823–1900) and published in his book Hymns and Other Stray Verses (1901). The poem was popularised by Guy Pentreath (1902–1985) in an amended version.
In some languages (Spanish, Welsh, Indonesian, etc.), the postpositive placement of adjectives is the normal syntax, but in English it is largely confined to archaic and poetic uses (e.g., "Once upon a midnight dreary", as opposed to "Once upon a dreary midnight") as well as phrases borrowed from Romance languages or Latin (e.g., heir apparent ...
In folklore, the witching hour or devil's hour is a time of night that is associated with supernatural events, whereby witches, demons and ghosts are thought to appear and be at their most powerful. Definitions vary, and include the hour immediately after midnight and the time between 3:00 am and 4:00 am.
to use "12 noon" or "12 midnight" (though "12 midnight" may still present ambiguity regarding the specific date) to specify midnight as between two successive days or dates (as in "midnight Saturday/Sunday" or "midnight December 14/15") to avoid those specific times and to use "11:59 p.m." or "12:01 a.m." instead.
Cale recorded the song and then released it in 1966 as a single with its flipside track "Slow Motion". [3] [4] When Eric Clapton was working with Delaney & Bonnie Bramlett, Delaney Bramlett introduced Clapton to the music of J.J. Cale. [5] [6] "After Midnight" was the first of several Cale cover songs released by Clapton and appeared on his self-titled debut album.
A bootstrap paradox, also known as an information loop, an information paradox, [6] an ontological paradox, [7] or a "predestination paradox" is a paradox of time travel that occurs when any event, such as an action, information, an object, or a person, ultimately causes itself, as a consequence of either retrocausality or time travel.